* § 30-101. Legislative findings.

1. The legislature finds that while the energy and economic output
generated by nuclear power plants are beneficial to the state and its
residents, discharges into waters of the state of radiological agents
from nuclear power plants have various adverse and substantial economic
impacts on the state and its residents.

2. The legislature further finds that communities with interests in
the Hudson River are concerned with the economic impacts on local real
estate values and economic development with respect to the discharge of
waste from nuclear power plants into waters of the state during plant
decommissioning, which effect is no longer balanced by countervailing
economic benefits of the plant to those communities that the plant
provided during operation.

3. The legislature further finds that other methods of managing waste
from decommissioning nuclear power plants are available and would not
result in the same economic impacts.

4. The legislature therefore finds and declares that it is the duty of
the state to act to preserve the economic vitality of affected
communities.

* NB Section inadvertently added as 30-101 instead of 30-0101